Mop holder having twisted wire handle



Jan. 19, 1954 N, B. KINDLEY MOP HOLDER HAVING TWISTED WIRE HANDLE Filed June 15, 1949 NANME E). (\NDLEY,

INVENTOR ATTORNEY I Patented Jan. 19, 1954 MOP HOLDER HAVING TWISTED WIRE HANDLE Nannie B. Kindley, Concord, N. 0.

Application June 15, 1949, Serial No. 99,141

2 Claims,

looped handle are twisted about each other and adjacent opposed ends of the wire strand, the ends ofthe same are twisted in such a manner as to provide an opening and. then the ends of the wire are doubled back upon themselves in such a manner that the ends of the wire will bisect the opening and will also face inwardly toward the opening and strands of textile fibrous material may be inserted through the opening and fastening means canbe passed around the strands immediately-below the reversely bent end portions of the wire, the inwardly bent ends of the wire serving to hold the strands of fibrous material in fixed relation to the handle per se, thus preventing rotation of the mop relative to the handle, and since the ends of the wire are curved inwardly, the probability of scoring the walls of cooking utensils, such as aluminum pots and pans while washing the same is eliminated, although considerable pressure may be exerted on the handle when the mop is in use.

Some of the objects of the invention having been stated, other objects will appear as the description proceeds, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of the dish mop completely assembled;

Figure 2 is an elevation looking substantially along the line 2-2 in Figure 1 and showing the curved ends of the wire and omitting the strand mop material;

Figure 3 is an enlarged elevation looking along the line 33 in Figure 2;

Figure 4 is an elevation looking at the lefthand end of the wire handle in Figure 3;

Figure 5 is an enlarged elevation taken along the line 5-5 in Fig. 1, showing parts of the wire handle in section-and showing the manner in which the twisted ends of the wirehandle serve to hold the mop strands in fixed relation to the handle per se.

Referring more specifically to the drawings, the numeral l0 broadly designates the twisted wire handle which is formed of a single piece of wire being looped at its medial portion as at I I to form a grip portion and legs I3 and M which are spirally twisted around each other for substantially the rest of their lengths to form a shank portion l2.

' After the shank portion 12 is formed of the legs l3 and I4, these legs l3 and It are bent outwardly apart from each other as shown in Figure 2 at It and H, and are then bent inwardly, one over the other, to form an opening or loop 20. The portion [6 is then curved upwardly in Figure 3 and rearwardly and then downwardly toward the opening or loop 29 to thus form a raised portion 2| the end portion indicated at 22 being bent substantially toward the longitudinal portion of the portion IE5 and passes around the] portion 16 and is then bent rearwardly and inwardly toward the handle It to form a second raised portion 23, the end portion indicated at 24 being of substantially the same configuration as the portion 22 and also extending toward the longitudinal axis of the opening or loop 29 as shownin Figure 4, thus locking the free ends 22 and 24 of the portions l6 and I! in fixed relation to each other. The ends 22 and 24 terminate in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop as.

In order to facilitate the application of a mop head 30 in the opening or loop 26 at the end of the shank portion [2, it is preferred that the mop material 30 be placed between the outwardly bent portions I9 and ll of the legs [3 and it before the ends of the legs [3 and [A are curved in overlapping relation to each other to form the raised portions 2! and 23.

The mop head preferably comprises a plurality of strands of soft fibrous material, such as cotton yarn, which are tied together intermediate their ends as by a strand 3! of a like material which is wound several times around the strands 3B and its ends are then tied together. The strands 30 are then folded upon themselves after they are inserted in the opening 29 at the end of the shank portion I2 of the handle IE3 and some of these strands of material 39 surround the end portions 22 and 24 0f the legs l3 and I4, while the outermost of the strands 39 pass over the ends 22 and 24, so as to provide a cushioning effect between the ends 22 and 24 and the object being cleaned by the mop.

After the ends of material forming the mop head 30 have been inserted through the opening 29 and. folded upon themselves, they are then tied together by a suitable strand 33, which is preferably of the same type of material as the strands 3i] and which are tied together as shown in Figure 1 and which insures that the extreme left-hand end portion of the handle it! in Figures 1, 2 and 3 will be covered by the strands of fibrous material 30, even though the free ends of the same may be turned back upon themselvesfrom the point where they aretied by the strand 33. The peculiar formation of the portions 2! and 23 prevents relative rotation between the mop and the handle.

In the drawings and specification there has been set forth a preferred embodiment of the invention, and although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic andd'es'crip tive sense only, and not for purposes'of limitation,

the scope of the invention being defined in the.

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l. A mop comprising a handle member formed of a single piece of wire, said wire being bent at its medial portion to form a looped handleportion, and to thus form a pair'oi parallel legs extending from the looped handle portion, said parallel legs being twisted about each other from the base of the looped handle portion to a point a substantial distance short of the iree ends of the legs, to form a twisted shanksaid legs being bent apart from each other at the end of the shank to form an elongated opening and then being bent toward each other into overlapping relation and then being bent one around the other with their ends bent towards the looped handle portion and terminating in a plane passing through the longitudinal axis of thehandle and perpendicular to the plane oi said opening, a plurality of strands offibrou's material inserted through said elongated opening and'being doubled upon themselves intermediate their "ends, means encircling the strands at a point removed from the ends of the legs andmeans for encircling the strands at a point adjacent theends of the legs whereby at least some of the strands of fibrous material will surround the ends of said legs and cover the extreme 'ends of the legs,

2. A mop comprising a handle member formed of a single piece of wire, said wire being bent at its middle to form a looped handle portion, and to thus form a pair of parallel legs extending from the looped handle portion, said parallel legs being twisted about each other from the base of the looped handle portion to a point a substantial distance short of the free ends of the legs, to form a twisted shank, said legs being bent apart from each 'other at the end of the shank to form an opening and then'extending in parallel relation to each other and then being bent to-- ward each other into overlapping relation and then being bent one around the other with their ends terminating in a plane passing through the longitudinal axis of the handle and perpendicular 't otheplan'e of said opening, said ends being bent towards the handle portion and then bent inwardly again toward each other but terminating References Cited in the-file of this patent UNITED sTATEsrATE'NTs Number Name Date 131,555 Osgood -1 "Sept. 24, 1,372 712,810 Knapp Nov. 4, 1902 774,106 Quee Nov. 1,19%

1,148,558 Wilson Aug. 3, 1915 1,610,838 Williams z' Dec. 1-4, 1926 2,079,988 Cushman et-al May-11, 19-37 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country. Date 3,285 Great Britain Feb. '10, 1906 266,513 Italy July '30, 1929 

